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your day with fox and friends z a special live "hannity" audience edition tomorrow night the hour of hannity you can't miss. 10:00 eastern. we'll see you back tomorrow on h night. this is a fox news alert. new evidence that the obama administration hadte fears abou the healthcare.gov. >> these documents released by v the house energy and commerce committee, the gop panel that had oversight over obama care when it was snaking its way we through the congress. among those on the sending and receiving ends of some of these e-mails were henry chao, the project manager for the websitel and also todd park, the chief technology officer at the whitea
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house. on one e-mail, sent on september 26 of this year and received by, henry chao among others, an official described how quote, oe wednesday, 9/25, the test finished with a lot of errors. the individual app, and w everything started failing. he went on later in the wednesday evening we ran two more cycles of testing. c neither was successful. the next day chao wrote to staff in all caps, i do not want a repeat of what happened when medicare.gov had a meltdown.er this is to get your attention it i didn't have it already. and just three days after that, todd park, again, with the whits house, e mailed his team, massive kudos again, for the incredible progress the team isn making. i what some might consider a heck
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of a job brownie moment if you will. >> so we have to ask, where is the transparency. ed henry grilling josh ernest. >> would you the consider turning over some of the e-mails between white house officials in the days leading up to healthcare.gov? give people an insight into what the president knew? >> they have taken that task upon themselves and have worked very carefully with journalists. sometimes he's done that if a ha way that has left people with a pretty misleading outlook of what's happening.>> it's indicative of our willingness to cooperate with gr legitimateet oversight.ti >>ng former congressman allen wt joins us.hers
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we've got to get these e-mail, drip, drip, drip. we get others yesterday. white house is not too willing us.sve them to >> it's amazing. this was supposed to be the most transparent administration in the history of this country.is if we really knew what was goinu on coming from this white house and this administration and the implementation of obama care, w, would be absolutely appalled. and slowly, the drip, drip that's occurring, it's eroding the belief that there's competence in this on administration. >> in part of the e-mails, they're worried about what st impact it was going to have on the media. and there wasn't one part that said oh, no, what about the r american people. there was no indication. they were worried about covering their own whatever. >> cya. co >> not one e-mail that i saw e
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that showed they care thad their product was going to hurt people. >> that comes back to the truth of the and if you're telling the american people exactly what your goals and objectives are, h which the left isin not going t do, then you want to keep the n. american people in the dark. and think about this whole thing about perception, fox news is reporting all these msnbc e commentators that were invited to the white house -- >> i think we had one as well. it's interesting this whole transparency thing. s theys president's quite teflon. he had no idea that these problems were existing with the system, that he never would have launched, what's with that?nd >> you ten to hear the president when it comes to irs, i didn't know. i found out when everybody elseo found out, benghazi, fast and t furious. when you're the leader, are' supposed to be having these b
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cabinet meeting, staff meetings, you're supposed to get updates.o you're supposed to know the questions you should be asking e of your cabinet members and se staff toe ensure that you're av informed. because if not, p how can you expect the american people to believe in you, and you see the trust that the people have in president obama, it's declining right now. >> it's curious. you mentioned benghazi. it happened on 9/11. i think it was on the 25th of september, two weeks latter, he was at the u.n.itua he's still talking about that video. was he disconnected?r or was he trying to be slippery. on the 14th of november, he says he had no idea. there was no problem. is he not informed? was he not curious? did he not ask somebody in the white house?de how's it going? >> either we have a president mp that is soer detached, or we ha a president that no one trusts telling him, the emperor has no clothes, everyone's telling him
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it's fine.e is >> what do you think's going ont >> i think there's something intensional going on. con i think the president does know what's happening, but he s continues to go out and blame other, continues to go out and talk about excuses because he believes he has some type of teflon approach. and i think when you are enlisting other media sources to come in and give him talking points that's his get out of fr jail free card. >> as i recall during the bush a administration, to be fair on that point, president bush oftes had the conservative radio talk show hosts come in. i remember a couple videos.side i think that's a white house thing. you manipulate the press. >> but he got boat up from both sides, no matter what.so >> the thing that's curious here, he says things that simply aren't so.bo is he uninformed or not telling theic truth?as pleat ask y let me ask you about another
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thick, this knockout game.me. >> when we passed each other, he punched me in the face. >> it's called the knockout game.me unrow vehicprovoked attacks on strangers. >> deaths have been reported in new york and new jersey. b >> would you want that to happen to your little brother or your little sister or your mom? >> on the record has been reporting on these violent attacks all week. but few in the media are willing to talk about it. and as we talk about this spreading crime take a look at a few of the attacks so you know what to look out for. this horrible game, first of all, it's a group of people, ng gang might not be the right uffe word. and after it's done, everybody laughs as the victim is lying ce there suffering. s in some instances even murdered. frankly, we know so far it's been african-americans as far as i can see on whites. i don't know if it's completely that way, but that's what we've seen.
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>> that is prtrue. that's what you're seeing.are and this talks to the state of n debravity that's in the black e community right now.e th and where are these black to leaders that should be talking about this break down? where are the parents? u where are the guardians of the black community sthag is unacceptable behavior? this is what's going to happen.g at some point in time, one of un the people that's attacked is en going to have a w concealed l weapons license, they're going to draw down, then somebody's going to get shot. then you're going to hear all the rhetoric coming out from the al sharptons that this unarmed black teenager was assaulted and killed when right now they should be out there stopping it so we don't get to this point.tn >> they've been silent. but one -- ho >> but this doesn't fit their political narrative.es >> obviously the ones who do it, they're criminals, arrest them, process them. and those who laugh may be t aiders and abetters, deal with them too, but the thing that
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concerns me, a lot of these communities have 12 and 13 year olds who look up to the elder ones and and if we don't stop this now, the immaturity of a 13 year old, is a 13 year old goinw to follow suit, do something really stupid, have the person h die, and no one's stepping up to stop this now. b >> think about down in brunswick, georgia where the two black teenagers shot the baby in the face. that's a life that has been lost because no one intervened. and no one tried to get into po thosert communities. you've got a brake down. not just the family, it's the no education opportunities, the job opportunities. we should not have these roving gangs that are out there saying we should knock someone out just for fun. >> one attacker in michigan was shot. so we are seeing a little bit oa that already. what should president obama do if anything? is there anything, i mean, wouli making a statement or putting this out as a public dialog?
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would that help? >> i think would help, because o you can't just cherry pick when you're going to intervene.>> you can't look at the skip gatec issue and say that the police officers -- >> that's at harvard. >> acted stupidly. you can't say trayvon martin could have been me or my son and then have these incidents where you're law say fair. it doesn't fit that political narrative. >> how about jesse jackson and al sharpton.>> they can draw attention. why are they silent? >> there's no profit for them.hb no political advantage for them. >> how about helping these neighborhoods? this is terrorizing some of the inner city neighborhoods. >> they don't care.nims they live off the victimization. so therefore, as long as you have black communities who see themselves as i victims that hes to perpetuate their existence. now if you jump in, why aren't they saying anything in chicagot about the black-on-black crime?y because they don't have a pointy
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in that. it doesn't elevate them whatsoever. and that's why these guys should be totally irrelevant, should not be listened to whatsoever.ou >> we got to start the dialog. we can't just do it here on the record. >> let's you and i go in a black community.th >> i have more experience on the street being an act vest in cities than a lot of people. coming up a little later, there's more news of more knockout attacks in several cities. we'll have several reports and the very latest coming up. new cancellations are coming and you might be next. and new cancellations are coming, and you might be next. first it, there were almost 6 million individual policies canceled, but is your employer-provided health care plan next? we have new information for you straight ahead.
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we've seen individual policies being cancelled. the we've seen individual policies being canceled. the next shoe to drop is more-responsibmore employer-sponsored plans. >> there were reports three years ago that said over 60% of families with lose their health care, yet they still ran around saying if you like what you have, you can keep it. >> a ticking time bomb. there could soon be an explosion
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of more health care plan cancellations, millions more. so, what's this? >> these are employers who were choosing to lower their health care costs by shifting people op to obama care's in exchanges which is a trend we expect to see continue into 2016 our 2017. >> is that the insurance company making that decision sending cancellation notices or is that your employer? >> that's your employer because ceos are looking at their budgets saying that health care is the one cost they can't predict because costs are rising so quickly. and they say even though the government now requires us to offer health insurance to our employee, we just might take the penalty, because it's more predictable. >> people think that if employers give up those plans that they will be unable to attract good employees. i actually think that the job
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market is so grim that they can do a lot to everybody and people will still stick around. is there any fear that if they do get rid of these plans that suddenly the employees are going to flee and go somewhere else? >> where do they go? >> major american companies aren't doing this yet. they're doing it on the margins, with retirees, with spouses who might be able to do it through their own employer, we saw ups do that, trader joe's is cutting it for this part-time employees. we're not seeing them to say none for anybody. it's seen as a basic american benefit of working for an american company. these marketplaces now offer what employers might see as a viable alternative for people to pick other plans. >> what's the timeline when this second wave could start kicking in? >> 2016, which means the administration is going to have to answer to it. because even if it's not directly related to obama care,
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anything that's changing in the health insurance market is now their problem. i pity the next president when this big wave happens. >> nice to talk to you. >> and we keep asking the question, will young healthy people sign up for obama care to keep it from sinking. now we have some answer up next.
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okay, everyone, it's time to hash it out it looks like some senate d okay, everyone, it is time to hash it out. it looks like some senate democrats could use a spelling lesson. this picture was snapped they had two misspellings, yes, that is an extra l in filibuster and a letter swap in the world
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healthcare or our to succeed and not crash, our health care and our economy needs the young and the healthy to enroll and they have to pay up. but is it getting the old and the sick? sacramento bee reporter christopher is here with us. how is california doing with this enrollment? >> california released its numbers today, and what it shows is a large oversampling of individuals 45 or over. those folks make up about 55% of the pool so far.
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and that's looking at the null of folks that have enrolled from october 1 through the end of the month of the and that percentage of the population is, should be around 25%. so there's certainly an ov oversampling of older folks. >> and in the younger category, do you have any idea what number that is and where people wanted it to be in order to fund this? >> so they've never given an exact sort of target for where they want that number to be. i just know they want that number to be high. that number roughly matches the population of that group. it's, it's certainly is not high. it's in the teens for each of those segments. you know, you call them the millennials. they certainly want to do a better job is what the folks from the state exchange said today. >> but any idea what the total number is for october in california? >> the total number for the month of october was about
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30,000. but the number they've added through tuesday brings it up to about just under 80,000 people that have picked their plans. >> any idea as to what the total number of their, what they expect or hope to get when the enrollment ends? >> through march 31, they're shooting for 500,000 to 700,000 folks that are eligible for federal subsidies to sign up for the state exchange. so i think if you look at some of their numbers lately, they're on track to hit that number. the first couple weeks they would be well short. so it's all determined by how many folks seen up from here on out on whether they hit their numbers in california. >> are they content with how it's working in california, are the people who run the exchange? >> they're extremely content. today the board that runs the exchange took up a measure that would have accepted president obama's invitation to delay some of these individual policies
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that are all being canceled on december 31, and they rejected that proposal. they could have given folks a three-month reprieve. they could have given folks a longer reprieve, but they said this will undermine the pool as you're talking about. so they feel like they're doing well enough on their website, unlike the federal one has largely been online. i think they want to keep the status quo. and they do point to themselves as a bright spot in the country as we've seen this thing rolled out. >> so their system works for the enrollment. how about the part where you pay and the money goes to the insurance company. is that all worked out there? >> i think that's a question where the answer is a little murkier. they don't expect people months out to start paying their premium. today they did a slight delay on when folks can pay it by about a week or two. it used to be the last week of december for coverage to start on the 1st.
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they pushed that back just a little bit. so that 80,000 number that we're talking about, that is not of folks who have paid their first premium, their first monthly charge. that's just folks who have selected a plan. >> christopher, thank you. people across america are scared. that knockout game is really a violent crime. it's even murder. it's spreading from state to state. and up next, two major cities where more and more people are getting hurt. do you think political leaders should speak out about the knockout game. speak out now using #grets at that.
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this is your speed read through the news this is your speed-read through the news. first to connecticut, the first time in 11 years, kennedy cousin michael skakel walks out of prison. he is granted a new trial. in 2002, he was convicted for the 1975 murder of neighbor
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martha moxley. they ruled that his lawyer failed to adequatery represent him. charles manson plans to get married to his 25 year old girlfriend star. he spent 44 years in prison for the murders of sharon tate and other victims. the boeing 747 finally taking off from the tiny kansas airport where it had mistakenly landed last night. it was supposed to land in mcconnell air force base that has a very, very long runway. jumbo jets that size usually need about a 9,000 foot runway to take off. but today, the weather was good, the jet had already used up lots of its fuel. it took off safely. now to north carolina. 95 year old reverend billy graham is back at his home.
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he had been hospitalized for two nights for respiratory problems, but he is home and in very good spirits. that's tonight's speed-read. and it's not stopping, the knockout, teens are committing it and laughing about it. all this week we've been bringing you news of these dangerous attacks. for the latest, fox philadelphia reporter joins us. what is going on? what evidence do you have that that's happening in your city? >> well, video evidence. we got surveillance video of these attacks on the local transit line, septa. they're violent, indiscriminate attacks on random people walking down the street. in one case this happened a couple weeks ago, it was a 24 year old medical student was walking to the subway, minding her own business, getting on the
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subway where out of nowhere a guy comes behind her and cold clocks her in the back of the head. she stumbles. she didn't fall to the ground and the guy runs away. turns out that less than 24 hours after that video was released, transit police arrested a man in connection with one of these incidents, possibly two of these incidents. but it's going on all over the country, a very, very disturbing trend. >> somebody sent me an e-mail saying don't report this, you're going to create copycat crimes. i don't think these people are watching on the record, but whatever. is there any discussion in your city as to what can be done? because it's so random. people are getting seriously hurt. >> honestly, greta, it is copyca copycats, and mainly not because of mainstream media. go on the internet. if you do a search for smack cam, you smack someone, put it
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up on line. it gets tons of hits and people copycat this. it's disturbing. and frankly, it's deadly. these kinds of attacks have turned out starting out as pranks and ends up to be a murder charge against these people. this is not a new phenomenon. it started several years ago. and it's just every time these come up, they go on line and you get copycats. >> in these instances, is it a racial difficuviddivide. and are people laughing? >> in moist of the cases you her people laughing, mostly teenagers. that's been the age group. it hasn't been a racial thing. the victim i spoke with yesterday was an african-american. one of them was holding a video camera. he staged it. he was rolling in the video. and one guy came behind him and punched him in the head.
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he was dazed. he was on the way to see his granddaughter on the subway when he got hit. just that quickly, the kids ran out of the trains. but they were caught on video. which a lot of these things on surveillance video, that's the evidence they need. >> chris, thank you. i appreciate you reporting. i know you're putting the spotlight on this. >> you got it, my pleasure. >> on the record continues to investigate this. take a look at a few of the attacks caught on camera so you know what to look out for. and in new york city a growing nun of knockout attacks targeting jewish people. the latest victim, a 78 year old woman. an assemblyman joins us. good evening. >> caller: good evening. the 78 year old woman who i met with and then reported it to the police, this is a woman who walked streets of our city --
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>> i think we have lost our guest. while we reconnect him, i can tell you a little bit about it. this is a 78 year old woman who was walking the street. she is terrified. she did not dias a result of the attack, but the reason why everyone is so convinced that this is a knockout game is because she wasn't robbed. that's one of the key signature aspects to these knockout things is that nobody is robbed. no one is sexually assaulted or anything. this is just hitting someone in the head and oftentimes a group of people laughing. theres with a congressman who was attacked. some people suspected it was a knockout game, but her purse was taken,and the person who attacked her was alone. so that put the lid on that one. that that was not a knockout game. but just take a look at these videos. look at this. just up behind, no indication and just hit for no reason. and as chris has just reported, you know, this is, this is being
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spread on the internet as some sort of game. and we're seeing it in cities. we're seeing it in michigan, new jersey, philadelphia, washington, i think there's a case in st. louis. but this is very serious. and we're going to stay on top of this story so you'll see it right here and on the record. straight ahead, president obama probably wishing he could get a little help from his friends. up next, some answers you have to hear. it's not the etting blindsided by limits" card. it's the no-game-playing, no-earning-limit-having, deep-bomb-throwing, give-me-the-ball-and-i'll-take- it-to-the-house, cash back card. this is the quicksilver cash card from capital one. unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere, every single day. so let me ask you... at's in your wallet?
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okay. let's go off-the-record for just a minute. talk about cha okay. let's go off the record for just a minute. talk about changing your tune. which is really a polite way to say hypocrite. democrats engaging the nuclear option. whether it's good or bad is the senate's business and not the point for me talking to you off the record. i'll get to my point in a minute. remember this in 2005 when republican senators tried the same move, the same stunt? democrats went wild with rage about how awful the nuclear option was, even accusing republicans for a quest for absolute power. here is then senator obama. >> if they choose to end the filibuster. if they choose to end the rules
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then the fighting and the gridlock will only get worse. >> now that's 180 degrees different than what president obama said today. today he suddenly likes the idea of a nuclear option. >> so i support the step a majority of senators today took washington is doing business. more specifically, the way the senate does business. >> and president obama's not the only one changing his tune. other democratic leaders weren't keen on it in 2005 either. >> the filibuster is far from a procedural gimmick. it's part of the fabric of this institution we call the senate. some in this chamber want to throw out 214 years of senate history in the quest for absolute power. >> i say to my friends on the republican side, you may own the field right now, but you won't own it forever. and i pray god when the
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democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing. >> oops? and yes, of course republicans are just as bad. nearly all of them loved the nuclear option in 2005, but today they bark about it saying it is going to destroy the senate. now that is a switch. now as an aside, the only senator to oppose it in 2005 and oppose it now is senator john mccain. here's my point. it's insulting that the politicians think we're that dumb. we heard what with both sides said last tile. i hate to say it, but you're a bunch of phonies. that's my off the record comment tonight. if you have an issue you think i should take off the record, go to greta wire.com and tell us about it. and president obama, he's not making a lot of friends on either side of the aisle these days. president doesn't have a lot of friends? >> he's definitely had a hard time, it's a lot of ideological.
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you've seen that as far back as his first election. there was a debate on the stimulus package. the first big legislation of his presidency, and he simply said, you know what? i won. that was his response to their objections. i won. >> i always thought that that was a huge mistake. it was like two weeks after he had been thinaugurated they did that. but then it was confirmed. his staff admitted it. other people's staff, but when you say i won, basically tough luck. it sort of set the tone. >> yeah. it was a great opportunity for him. if he would have increased defense spending, done a little bit more on tax cuts, he could have split the republican party in two and that would have gone a long way to helping him, you know, achieve his goals and stay in political power, maybe keep the democrats in power. but time and again we've seep him not really interested in
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going down and negotiating with people. and i think part of the problem is he doesn't think he has anything to learn from anybody else. there's a great great quote from him in 2008 where he says he knows more about any given policy than his policy directors. >> i don't know if he's making a lot of friends in the democrat party. i think he went down and helped ter terry mcca terry mcall live in virginia. it doesn't look like he's cultivating his own party. >> i don't think it's a huge personal problem. he's so politically toxic. >> he wasn't, though, he got his whole party to go along with him on obama care. it wasn't toxic before. >> it wasn't, that's when it was theoretical. now we're seeing the reality, people losing their insurance, losing their doctors. and they can't run from that. that's ideological. that's a feature of his health
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care law, not a bug. and it's hard for democrats to stand by him when he made all these promises and it's not coming true. >> any idea what's going to happen with that? are the democrats a lot more angry? >> there's the media crisis which is the website. there are people who have health insurance and got thrown off of it and won't be able to have it by january 1. so if they don't sign up they won't have it for january 1. the larger problem is the functionality of the law, whether or not it's going to keep raising prices through the roof. and i think that's the deeper problem is the way the law is structured. not simply that the website doesn't work. >> we've heard that they haven't set up the part of the website where the payment goes to the insurance companies. >> if they sign up directly with the insurers, which you can do, but it's against the law to go ahead and give them subsidies if
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they don't go through the federal exchange. >> thank you. coming up, the doctors are sending out warnings about obama care. don't forget to watch hannity tonight. his guests two include kimberly guilfoyle. that's on hannity.
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now, show you what we are watching. we put together the most now it is time to show you what we are watching. we put together the most fantastic videos out there tonight. take a look, a private health insurance company mocking, maybe even ridiculing healthcare.gov. check out one of the ads from hell mark blue cross blue shield. >> things don't always work out
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♪ as your heart shows ♪ only time >> ah, you [ bleep ]. >> looks like that didn't go so well. a baby otter drinking milk from a syringe. this is how he gets his daily calcium supply. you love that one, don't you? i do. and that's what we're watching tonight. and coming up, is obama care putting the squeeze on doctors? senator john burr as owe is up next.
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is obamacare giving doctors the squeeze? many doctors say they will be pai is obama care giving doctors the squeeze? many doctors say they will be paid less to treat more patients and that could lead to problems not only for them, but for you, the patient. now the problem is the doctors. >> the president's first broken promise, if you like what you have, you can keep it. we now know over 5 million people have gotten cancellation letters. the next is he said if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. we now know that millions of people are going to lose their doctors, including patients on medicare, our seniors, because of the exchanges and the number of doctors who are either being left out of exchanges or left out of insurance plans. >> these insurance plans are throwing doctors out of their network, so if you want to go to
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that doctor you have to pay out-of-pocket, which is not going to happen. where do they get more money by throwing the doctors out of their exchanges? >> they can say we don't want to treat certain conditions, you don't have cancer doctor, heart doctor, neonatal pied yeah tricks, in the networks. whole hospitals have been excluded from many network, the mayo clinic, cedars sinai. children's hospital in st. louis. so the doctors aren't going to be able to take care of those patients either. >> i saw on the front page of the washington post today, what some of them are saying is they want them not to go to the mayo clinic, they want them to go to the community hospitals, and what they're saying is that routine care offered at community hospitals is comparable to pricey medical centers. when you're really sick you don't want to go to a hospital that doesn't have a lot of experience. you want to go to a hospital
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that does research and see this is all the time. your community hospital may be great for some things but not other things. >> and you want to make sure that people get the care they need from a doctor they choose at lower cost, and it's somebody that's practiced medicine for 24 year, taking care of people in wyoming, i know there's a lot to be said for that doctor/patient relationship, knowing the patient, knowing the family. this is one of the falsehoods put in deliberately to deceive the american people to vote for this law. >> if you go to one of these major medical centers, it's going to be more expensive, that's why they want to ice out some of these regional centers that are more expensive, so that you go to a local, because whatever you get is going to be cheaper. >> and the way they set up the exchanges, if you want a competitive bid, it's still going to be huge sticker shock
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where people are hit with premium shock. the only way to keep that down a bit is to say we're going to exclude certain hospitals that take care of certain problems or exclude specific physicians. that's why it's so limited. and by people, once they finally, after they timely fix the website and can shop on the exchange, you've got to really kind of buyer beware, trust but verify, not just the security of the exchange, but what you're going to get. i think people are going to be very disappointment by the statements the president made. >> i think there are 26 hospitals in the state of new hampshire and ten of them can't get on the insurance exchange. i doesn't know what's going to happen to those 10 hospitals. the main hospital in concord, new hampshire, you can't even go there if you have insurance. nice to see you, sir. and thank you for being with us
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